What is a Declaration of Conformity?
The Machinery Directive refers to 2 different types of Declaration: Conformity and Incorporation. The Declaration of Conformity is issued machines which can be used in their own right as individual pieces of equipment. A Declaration of Incorporation is issued with partly completed machinery which is designed to be incorporated with other machinery and cannot function safely on its own.
Annex 2 of the Machinery Directive details the requirements of a Declaration of Conformity as follows:
- business name and full address of the manufacturer and, where appropriate, his authorised representative;
- name and address of the person authorised to compile the technical file, who must be established in the Community;
- description and identification of the machinery, including generic denomination, function, model, type, serial number and commercial name;
- a sentence expressly declaring that the machinery fulfils all the relevant provisions of this Directive and where appropriate, a similar sentence declaring the conformity with other Directives and/or relevant provisions with which the machinery complies. These references must be those of the texts published in the Official Journal of the European Union;
- where appropriate, the name, address and identification number of the notified body which carried out the EC type-examination referred to in Annex IX and the number of the EC type-examination certificate;
- where appropriate, the name, address and identification number of the notified body which approved the full quality assurance system referred to in Annex X;
- where appropriate, a reference to the harmonised standards used, as referred to in Article 7(2);
- where appropriate, the reference to other technical standards and specifications used;
- the place and date of the declaration;
- the identity and signature of the person empowered to draw up the declaration on behalf of the manufacturer or his authorised representative.
The person authorised to compile the technical file is the person or company that will produce the Technical File within Europe should any of the national enforcement agencies (i.e. HSE) require to see it. Any non-European manufacturer must have a European company or person fulfil this role.
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